Nvm that Yasuke was a real person.
Suddenly Americans are acting like they care about Asian representation
Ok I don’t have a horse in this race and didn’t know who either of these people were until I saw this meme, and spent some time googling.
As far as I can tell Anjin is based on William Adams, an English navigator, they literally just call him “Mr pilot” he doesn’t have a Japanese name. And Yosuke is supposedly just a Japanese guy. So like, while I don’t care, it does seem like there’s some room for misrepresentation.
Anyway, I’m probably wrong, wogi out
Yasuke was literally an African retainer in 16th century Japan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke, don’t know how hard you googled but it was the first hit on DDG.
Not very. If he’s African then he’s African I don’t see what the problem is.
Surprised this is the first they’re hearing of Yasuke. There was a fairly popular anime recently with an awesome soundtrack by flying lotus.
I had not heard of him till the anime. The soundtrack goes hard. I couldn’t do the show but I’m not big on anime.
Was it popular? I was hyped when it was announced, but when the trailer showed magic, giant robots, and a very Saturday morning color palette, my interested died. I was hoping for a much more grounded show for what was going Yasuke’s first big depiction. Something along the lines of the Sword of a Stranger aesthetic would have been perfect.
Where are people upset about this? I haven’t seen anything
Honestly I think it’d be better if we just ignored the ignorant rather than amplifying their voices. Ignore them unless you are defending someone from being harmed.
Literally no one is complaining about this
